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...think it was a failure of intelligence and, in a curious way, a failure of common sense. The overkill of coverage was so immense that they literally started counting the cows twice, that when you have huge amounts of data coming in, it's very easy to lose count as simply as that. But the failure of common sense is absolutely weird in its stupidity. Any good journalist who'd been living in Moscow in the later years of Brezhnev would know that nothing worked anymore. The knight was dying inside his armor, and somehow that human perception never made...
...take a break. Instead he abruptly decided to rush to Washington last Thursday to fulminate on the Capitol grounds against Bill Clinton's budget. The program was moving through Congress faster than Perot had anticipated, so he personally displayed a truckload of petitions -- bearing 2.5 million signatures by his count -- demanding that Washington cut spending before raising taxes. Minority leader Bob Dole gave Perot's show an unusual plug on the Senate floor. As Dole argued for his own doomed deficit-reduction plan, which contained no tax increases, he said, "Ross Perot has got the message . . . He's been...
...There's a feeling, 'If I'm going to lose the weight and then just regain it, why start?' " The fast-food companies are keeping salads on the menu and offering a greater variety of other items, but they have lost their illusions about attracting many people who still count calories. Admits Kentucky Fried Chicken vice president Steve Provost: "People just don't go to a fast-food restaurant if they're looking for a guiltless meal...
...coalition of suburban whites and inner-city blacks has been replaced by a surprisingly multi-ethnic conservative coalition. While Riordan's strongest support came from the largely white San Fernando Valley, he won slices of minority votes as well. In some mixed central-city districts where Bradley used to count on more than 90%, Riordan won 40% of Latinos, 20% of blacks and even a third of Asians...
...mobility, the wrenching disparity of worldwide incomes. But its effect is most devastating on an individual level. Poor women and children are commodities traded on the street, products bartered, haggled over, smuggled and sold as hedges against hunger or as cruel but quick routes to profit. Souls do not count, only bodies, debased over and over, unmindful of social cost or disease...